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This photonegative shows a Malay man, bare-bodied and barefoot, standing with his right arm akimbo and his left resting on the trunk of a palm tree. He wears a head cloth and a white cloth with its two ends dangling down in the front and rear of the lower part of his body. Title devised by Library staff. Date of creation estimated.
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